The Star Advertiser reports that on Monday Hawaii Gas landed its first containerized shipment of LNG at Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii. Last month, the Hawaii Public Service Commission authorized shipments of LNG to Hawaii Gas from the U.S. mainland as part of a backup supply to Hawaii Gas’s...

Globe Newswire reports that Excelerate Energy and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) have executed definitive agreements for the procurement, construction and operation of the Aguirre Offshore GasPort terminal, proposed for the south coast of Puerto Rico.

Reuters reports that Japan’s Kansai Electric Power Co. has entered into an agreement to purchase 400,000 tonnes of LNG per year from Mitsui & Co. over a 20-year period from the Cameron LNG terminal at Henry Hub-linked prices, starting in late 2017.

For the first time Canadian “Public Utility Companies” will have their procurement processes, evaluation methodologies and contract awards subject to international disciplines under the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) between Canada and the European Union. ...

One hundred sixty-nine House members—89 Republicans and 80 Democrats—have voiced their support for the Obama Administration’s proposal to set funding of the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Electric Loan Program at $5 billion for fiscal year 2015. However, they have also asked that...

The Senate Public Utilities Committee heard testimony this week on a bill to freeze Ohio’s alternative energy and energy efficiency standards, which were enacted in Senate Bill 221 of the 127th General Assembly. During sponsor testimony on Senate Bill 310, Senator Troy Balderson...

The city council for McLeansboro, Illinois, appears ready to settle a multi-year lawsuit against Wayne-White Electric Cooperative and a local school district alleging that the coop impinged on the exclusive rights of the municipal electric utility to serve the local high school.

Four electric utility coops in the Midwest will become joint owners of a 517-kW solar project developed by Dragonfly Solar, a commercial solar developer based in Lakeville, Minnesota, and SolarWorld, the largest U.S. solar manufacturer.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Cooperative and Small Employer Charity Pension Flexibility Act (H.R. 4275). This Act makes permanent a temporary exemption for rural cooperative “multiple-employer” defined benefit plans and similar plans for other not-for-profit...